I doubt that the hereafter will hold anything as engrossing as our quadrennial presidential elections; as absorbing as the cultural and political clashes between the Eastern and Western worlds; as portentous as the debates about global warming and stem cell research, as much fun as the World Series and the Super bowl. Nor is the next world likely to offer the intriguing, awesome, ludicrous, shameful comic and noble manifestations of human conduct reported in the newspapers every day.
I would like to live long enough to know if there will be a cure for cancer; if there is life on other planets; if terrorism will be wiped out; how history will treat George W. Bush; how high and how low women's skirts will go; and if songs will ever sing again. I'd like to be around if and when the limits to the universe are discovered and when physicists find the tiniest bit of matter that can possibly exist. Will Social Security be saved and will scientists learn how memory works? There, from the cosmic to the comic, from the crises of life to its circuses, are reasons enough to be affectionately attached to living and living and living.
Have a Happy 4th of July!
More Later, Joe
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